Suggestion Box for RemixOS 3 - Remix OS for PC

Hi, I installed RemixOS on my Clevo i7 laptop recently and I must admit it all worked out of the box, installed google play and was able to download apps no problem.
However, I could only get it installed as dual boot with my current windows 8.1, so I’d get the ugly boot menu where you pick either Windows 8.1 or RemixOS. For most people this is fine, but for people who use a third party boot manager this is not a good option. They have already selected to boot Windows from their boot manager and now have a second boot menu to choose from, not ideal.
My suggestion for RemixOS 3 is that an advanced installation option is incorporated, similar to that found in versions of Ubuntu where the user can select the swap, root & home etc. partitions and also where you would like grub installed. For us who already use a boot manager this would be wonderful. It means we can have our system setup as we want and have RemixOS installed without over righting important information.
Thanks in advance.

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Acer C720P - Remix OS - Wildly impressed.

First the issues. I was not able to figure out how to set it up to where I can install Remix OS on my chromebook's SSD instead of having to use a USB stick. I also wasn't able to figure out why running the ISO installer tool that comes with the most recent download (yesterday) didn't work. I used it on a 32GB PNY USB flash drive, but after going into the legacy boot menu on my Chromebook, and selecting my USB stick to boot from, it was not able to find an operating system. Instead, I used Linux Live USB Creator (LiLi). I manually selected the Remix OS ISO that came with the download, and installed it to my USB stick. My chromebook recognized it immediately as a bootable OS. It even gave me the options for guest mode, and write mode. I chose write mode. The only downside to this is not being able to choose how large the partitions should be. Either way, it installed successfully.
The awesome parts. It recognized and works uniformly with my chromebook's touch screen and touch pad. Zero issues. It even recognizes some touch-pad short cuts like two-finger scrolling, etc. It doesn't recognize some of my keys on the keyboard itself, like volume up/down, and brightness up/down, but this is easily managed at the task bar. I also tested Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes to see if games would be sluggish running on a USB stick. I don't know about all games, but that one in particular ran as though it was on my Nexus 7. Super smoothly, with no issues. Aside from it being a bit sluggish running apps for the first time, (it frequently asked if I wanted to wait, or to force close Facebook and others - hitting wait works), I am very impressed with the experience. It's everything I could hope for in a beta android desktop OS! :good: :good:
PS, I'm actually running it right now as I type this.
I got it to install on my Acer R14 with a triple boot, windows 10, ubuntu, remix os. If you use universal usb installer and install directly to a NTFS partition on your hard drive you can use RMXtools to make the data .img whatever size you want. I did it for 50GB and have installed alot of apps and i still have 48GB left. I really like this OS.
Well I tried ubuntu on my chromebook for a while, but wasn't feeling it. I would have to put it on in order to install Remix OS to a hard drive no?
No just use universal usb installer and select non-linux installation and install directly to your ntfs drive. The expand the data file with RMXTools to whatever size you want.
rsktkr1 said:
No just use universal usb installer and select non-linux installation and install directly to your ntfs drive. The expand the data file with RMXTools to whatever size you want.
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How do I run Universal USB installer from Chrome OS then?
ryfly65 said:
How do I run Universal USB installer from Chrome OS then?
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Make your usb bootable with Rufus.
Been using it from USB for weeks now I'll try the Linux USB tool, would be amazing to get this running on the hdd. Does you're touchpad work??
Edit: just read it does work but hasn't for me, been needing my wireless mouse
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Is it possible to boot a linux live usb and install remix os on the ssd with Gnome disks?
There has got to be some variation in components with revisions of the C720P, because no OS I have tried to boot on mine has supported the mouse other than Gallium. If I install the GalliumOS kernel on Debian it works fine, but no idea how I would do that with Android. Your touchpad really just worked huh? Not for me, not in the version of RemixOS I downloaded from the Jide site last night, nor in the hacked edition or whatever it's called here on XDA.
My laptop Asus X8AIJ very old since 2005.....
settup on HDD,,,non USB
Win10 64bit + Remix os 2.0.0.205 with rooted ,,,,very good...but i can not settup display for as well

Unable to start remixos without numerous grub menus

Loving RemixOS But not loving how painful it is on my pc to launch it
Initially I installed remixos on my Lenovo Miix 700 using the installer from jide.com. It worked fine, and when connected to a keyboard I can choose it in the grub menu and launch it ok. Everything happy and I can use my laptop as a tablet with android
Windows is installed in UEFI mode (laptop can boot legacy or UEFI), so it is not added to windows boot menu, only as a grub menu. EasyBCD does not work (as it is UEFI).
The problem is, the hardware keys (vol up / vol down are the only ones I have) do not work in grub, so without a keyboard attached I cannot boot into remixos.
Next I went and followed a guide on hitricks.com called guide-how-to-dual-boot-remix-os-with-windows-uefi-legacy which installs remix to a partition. This works as in it now shows up in my bios-level boot menu (which I can access by holding down vol up during boot, not ideal but not world ending), but has left a lot of mess. I have a grub menu for starting windows (normal boot), and a separate grub menu when booting the remix partition. I want to delete / uninstall the grub menu installed by the jide installer (the one on normal boot), so it just goes into windows boot. If there is no way to add remix to windows boot manager, I would then just keep the grub menu for remixos when booting from bios menu (already I have this but set to timeout 0 so I don't actually see it).
My EFI partition looks like following:
\boot\grub\grub.cfg this is the grub menu shown at startup. Deleting this I get grub terminal only.
\EFI\Microsoft\... microsoft windows 10
\EFI\Android\grubx64.efi, grub.cfg This is the grub menu for remixos. I have changed this to have a timeout of zero as can only get here by bios boot menu anyway
\EFI\RemixOS\bootx64.efi, grubx64.efi, exfat64.mod, ntfs64.mod, grub.cfg This I think was created by the installer previously. It only has an entry for Windows
I have already tried the windows 10 recovery mode -> bootrec /fixmbr and bootrec /fixboot, but they did not change it.
In an ideal world, I would just have the windows boot menu (as it has touch screen), and nothing else. I have considered using neosmart's easy recovery essentials (as apparently it can also un-UEFI mode windows), but I don't want to buy it if it will not work.
Any suggestions greatly appreciated please!
smurftheweb said:
If there is no way to add remix to windows boot manager, I would then just keep the grub menu for remixos when booting from bios menu (already I have this but set to timeout 0 so I don't actually see it).
I have already tried the windows 10 recovery mode -> bootrec /fixmbr and bootrec /fixboot, but they did not change it.
In an ideal world, I would just have the windows boot menu (as it has touch screen), and nothing else. I have considered using neosmart's easy recovery essentials (as apparently it can also un-UEFI mode windows), but I don't want to buy it if it will not work.
Any suggestions greatly appreciated please!
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Sorry, I could not get my head around everything you were saying. But I noticed you mentioned "Windows 10 Recovery Mode" as not helping. So I wanted to chime in, in that regard.
I also have a Lenovo Miix 700. Last night, I was desperately trying to find a way for Remix OS to use the Windows Boot Manager. None of my experiments worked. Then even after uninstalling Remix OS from uninstaller: the Grub bootloader remained on startup. Additionally, I tried deleting items manually from the boot partition, which screwed up my boot.
The solution that worked for me was entering recovery mode (Power+Volume Up on Miix device). Then enter the command prompt. The command that rebuilt my boot and got rid of Remix OS entries was: bootrec /rebuildbcd

[UPDATE] Remix OS for PC update 3.0.102

The first update for Remix OS for PC (Android Marshmallow) has been released. It's available for download here.
After this update, future updates will be available through OTA.
Your feedback was instrumental in guiding our work.
Check out the release notes below.
Release notes
Remix OS for PC version: 3.0.102
Release date: August 2, 2016
Fixed more Wi-Fi issues related to Broadcom wireless chipsets
Support hard disk partition mount allows you to access other files and folders
Support for future updates via OTA
Added feature where recent apps will be shown on the top line of apps in the App Drawer
Added “App Store” to Remix OS
RemixOS_Jason said:
The first update for Remix OS for PC (Android Marshmallow) has been released. It's available for download here.
After this update, future updates will be available through OTA.
Your feedback was instrumental in guiding our work.
Check out the release notes below.
Release notes
Remix OS for PC version: 3.0.102
Release date: August 2, 2016
Fixed more Wi-Fi issues related to Broadcom wireless chipsets
Support hard disk partition mount allows you to access other files and folders
Support for future updates via OTA
Added feature where recent apps will be shown on the top line of apps in the App Drawer
Added â??App Storeâ? to Remix OS
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Thank you my good sir. Will this keep our data?
Sent from my on Z00A using XDA Labs
Good news! I hope this update solve my problems with my Broadcom BCM43142 chipset!
edgerch said:
Good news! I hope this update solve my problems with my Broadcom BCM43142 chipset!
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It did solve my wifi problems
Will this retain our data or has to be fresh install?
This is great! The only problem I was having was the WiFi problem with the 3.0.101 (I was using the Ethernet, which worked great) and after upgrading it to the 3.0.102 version, the WiFi is working great. I will mention that I am running it on my HP Mini 110-3135DX from a 16GB USB 2.0 Flash drive and so far everything works pretty good and smooth. Thanks.
Still can't get play store working at all on this version...
Edit: Also still can't handle my gtx 560ti by default but seems to be slightly better. Still freezes after a few screen transitions though.
Edit 2: System time is still getting knocked out by an hour when booting back in to Windows 10. I had this on Lollipop too.
Others are getting the play issue. Any way I can help?
can't wait to try this update
stayloa said:
Still can't get play store working at all on this version...
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I never use the app.
This method only works if you haven't already used the app to activate the Play Store
Instead go to settings/experimental features and enable debug terminal console. Then I use ALT&F1 to open debug command line and type :
pm disable com.jide.apppolicy
pm enable com.google.android.syncadapters.contacts
pm enable com.google.android.gms
pm enable com.google.android.gsf
pm enable com.google.android.partnersetup
pm enable com.google.android.feedback
pm enable com.google.android.syncadapters.calendar
pm enable com.google.android.gsf.login
pm enable com.google.android.backuptransport
After type pm list packages -d
You should see only the one you disabled
Press ALT&F7 zto exit terminal
IMMEDIATELY REBOOT
Hi,
I require URGENT help.
Originally i had a 64GB e-mmc on my windows tablet, which had a single partition of 57GB named C:\ & Windows 8 came pre-installed on it. Rest 5GB disk was kept as Recovery by OEM.
I updated to Windows 10 last year.
Now, a month back in order to run Remix OS beta, on my laptop.
i used Windows in-built disk management tool, to shrink the C:\ drive, & took 15GB from it & set it as a new partition, & named it E:\ drive.
& disabled Secureboot in BIOS, & then installed the beta Remix OS on the E:\.
As the Remix OS beta, would not load from Windows boot menu from BIOS, i booted Windows 10 & formatted the E:\.
Today, I downloaded the "Remix OS 3.0 for PC", & through it's installation file installed the Remix OS.iso on the (E:\) 15GB partition.
After the setup of remix os (running in windows) was complete, it asked for reboot.
After reboot,
It immediately shows me a screen:
showing: GNU GRUB version 2.02~beta2.
& listing RemixOS as the only option to boot.
[Windows 10 was nowhere to be found.
Apparently Windows Boot Manager had be over-written by GNU GRUB.]
Anyways, After selecting the remix os option, it kept loading till, it shows the language setup screen.
Then i'm unable to select the English language (keyboard doesn't work).
I have to force reboot, after clicking power button for 10 seconds.
But again GNU GRUB screen comes, & only shows RemixOS as an option to boot.
I created a bootable usb drive of Partition Magic Free .iso, & tried loading it from the BIOS menu, where it showed me two options:
1. Windows Boot Manager
2. UEFI: USB USB hard drive (# pendrive)
Upon selecting the 2nd option, nothing happened. it showed the same BIOS screen.
I then created the Windows Recovery flash drive, from another Windows tablet, on the same Pen drive (after formatting it).
Now surprisingly, the laptop succesfully booted from the Windows Recovery pendrive.
But the repair tool, did not solve my problem.
So i went into command prompt (which is built-in on the Windows Recovery drive)
went into DISKPART>list disk> selected disk 0> list partition> #selected the E: partition.
gave CLEAN command,
Which apparently cleaned the whole 64GB disk, rather than cleaning the E:\ partition.
So now, i require your HELP, in getting back my important files which were in my C:\
So that after recovering them, to my external drive.
I can load a fresh Windows 10 on this 64GB e-mmc card.
Kindly tell me, which software can i use to recover data from my CLEANED disk ?
Sweeeeeeeet. Wifi is now working. and it has already mounted all my drives :good::laugh:
lollyjay said:
I never use the app.
This method only works if you haven't already used the app to activate the Play Store
Instead go to settings/experimental features and enable debug terminal console. Then I use ALT&F1 to open debug command line and type :
pm disable com.jide.apppolicy
pm enable com.google.android.syncadapters.contacts
pm enable com.google.android.gms
pm enable com.google.android.gsf
pm enable com.google.android.partnersetup
pm enable com.google.android.feedback
pm enable com.google.android.syncadapters.calendar
pm enable com.google.android.gsf.login
pm enable com.google.android.backuptransport
After type pm list packages -d
You should see only the one you disabled
Press ALT&F7 zto exit terminal
IMMEDIATELY REBOOT
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The problem is bigger than using a standard method unfortunately. Something fundamentally isn't working with a few peoples' installs. We've all tried that method (which is my default go to) but nothing works...
Yup, just tried the 102 version hoping my WiFi will work...still nothing. It seems I don't have the lucky chipset. I have a RTL8192CU.
Oh well...maybe with the next update.
Hi. I'm new here. So pls bear with me. I downloaded remix os yesterday in India.
I want to know how to check the version. Because wifi is still not working for me. Ethernet is.
It's showing that the version 3.0.102 has solved the wifi issue. I have a Broadcom wifi adapter. Please help.
osr.arora said:
Hi,
I require URGENT help.
Originally i had a 64GB e-mmc on my windows tablet, which had a single partition of 57GB named C:\ & Windows 8 came pre-installed on it. Rest 5GB disk was kept as Recovery by OEM.
I updated to Windows 10 last year.
Now, a month back in order to run Remix OS beta, on my laptop.
i used Windows in-built disk management tool, to shrink the C:\ drive, & took 15GB from it & set it as a new partition, & named it E:\ drive.
& disabled Secureboot in BIOS, & then installed the beta Remix OS on the E:\.
As the Remix OS beta, would not load from Windows boot menu from BIOS, i booted Windows 10 & formatted the E:\.
Today, I downloaded the "Remix OS 3.0 for PC", & through it's installation file installed the Remix OS.iso on the (E:\) 15GB partition.
After the setup of remix os (running in windows) was complete, it asked for reboot.
After reboot,
It immediately shows me a screen:
showing: GNU GRUB version 2.02~beta2.
& listing RemixOS as the only option to boot.
[Windows 10 was nowhere to be found.
Apparently Windows Boot Manager had be over-written by GNU GRUB.]
Anyways, After selecting the remix os option, it kept loading till, it shows the language setup screen.
Then i'm unable to select the English language (keyboard doesn't work).
I have to force reboot, after clicking power button for 10 seconds.
But again GNU GRUB screen comes, & only shows RemixOS as an option to boot.
I created a bootable usb drive of Partition Magic Free .iso, & tried loading it from the BIOS menu, where it showed me two options:
1. Windows Boot Manager
2. UEFI: USB USB hard drive (# pendrive)
Upon selecting the 2nd option, nothing happened. it showed the same BIOS screen.
I then created the Windows Recovery flash drive, from another Windows tablet, on the same Pen drive (after formatting it).
Now surprisingly, the laptop succesfully booted from the Windows Recovery pendrive.
But the repair tool, did not solve my problem.
So i went into command prompt (which is built-in on the Windows Recovery drive)
went into DISKPART>list disk> selected disk 0> list partition> #selected the E: partition.
gave CLEAN command,
Which apparently cleaned the whole 64GB disk, rather than cleaning the E:\ partition.
So now, i require your HELP, in getting back my important files which were in my C:\
So that after recovering them, to my external drive.
I can load a fresh Windows 10 on this 64GB e-mmc card.
Kindly tell me, which software can i use to recover data from my CLEANED disk ?
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this is so sad ...
i suggest that you install a files recovery app to your usb
if you install anything to your drive your files may be overwritten ...
so be careful .
GOOD LUCK
salimtn said:
this is so sad ...
i suggest that you install a files recovery app to your usb
if you install anything to your drive your files may be overwritten ...
so be careful .
GOOD LUCK
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Sadly, my Samsung ATIV 500T's BIOS doesn't let me boot from any USB recovery drive, other than the Windows Recovery USB drive (created from another Windows 10 installation)
My Solution
osr.arora said:
Sadly, my Samsung ATIV 500T's BIOS doesn't let me boot from any USB recovery drive, other than the Windows Recovery USB drive (created from another Windows 10 installation)
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I had the same problem. Windows wasn't deleted, it just didn't have a grub2 entry.
To reboot into Windows, I pressed "c" to access the grub2 bash command-line, and then I typed exit, which loaded me into the bios menu for my Nextbook Flexx 10.1 Windows tablet. In the bios menu, I was able to select the Windows EFI Boot Manager, and continue into Windows.
Hopefully, this solution works for you.
When you boot back into Windows, if you are like me and are unfamiliar with editing grub.cfg files to add a Windows entry, grub2win is a fairly simple UI for setting up a grub2 bootloader. And from within the grub2win UI, you can change the EFI Firmware Boot Order.
Sorry, I'm new on RemixOS. Is there any app or settings to get the update via OTA? I enabled the unstable system option, but I can't get any message. Or should I update downloading the zip from Jide?
hello I have a tablet lenovo miix 3 and I wanted to install in hard top. I have already removed Windows. But when I moved over Remix OS , boot the first he said: you need to load the kernel first...
How do ?
how can I update from 2.0.402 to 3.0.102.
I couldn't find any OTA updates in settings.....

Issues installing RemixOS 3...

I have been trying to install RemixOS 3 on my Intel Cherry Trail tablet, but it is not going well. (Note: Tablet is a Teclast X16 Power, which has an X8700 CPU, and uses the standard Cherry Trail chipset for almost all features.)
First issue is that the RemixOS installer seems to only want to create a boot menu entry in the BCD for Remix OS if there is only 1 other entry in it. (I have tried installing it on a few Windows systems, and if there is already more than 1 BCD entry, the installer doesn't seem to create one.) In the case of Windows 10 (which is currently on my Cherry Trail tablet), Windows creates multiple boot menu entries (regular boot, debug/safe mode, recovery, ...) during it's install process, so there will always be more than 1.
I finally tried using a BCD editor to remove all entries except the standard boot, and I did get the Remix OS installer to create an entry. Even then, it seemed to corrupt the BCD so that the Metro style touchscreen menu did not work (only text mode), and I had to do a Windows recovery operation to get it to boot again.
When I did get the Tablet to boot, the Wifi didn't wok. (This seemed strange because the tablet uses a RealTec RTL8723BS chip for wireless LAN, and the RealTec LAN chips are pretty standard in PCs these days. ) Because I couldn't get the tablet to connect to my network, I wasnt able to try many of the other features.
NOTE: I was able to get RemixOS 3 to install on my Dell XPS12 Ultrabook PC/Tablet. That system is running Windows 8.1 (instead of Windows 10), and most of the RemixOS features seemed to work OK (including Wifi). I did miss the fact that RemixOS doesn't seem to support screen rotation (like other Android ROMs), and the RemixOS also doesn't support home screen widgets. (That seems like a big over-sight to me.)
I am a big fan of Android, and I do like the general direction that the RemixOS development is going in. I would suggest that the development team work on adding support for screen rotation, and widgets. I also think it would be great if they worked on a start menu that is somewhat more like the Windows 10 style start menu that PheonixOS came up with. All-in-all... good stuff. I just think they have a little bit further to go on the development.
Screen rotation was there previously (in 2.x); I haven't figured how to enable on 3.x yet.
Widgets are there - turn of the file manager launcher in settings - or disable both built-in launchers and install a custom one

Does remix place nice with windows 7

I couldn't tell from the cryptic instructions whether I would end up with a conventional dual boot arrangement if I install remix on my windows 7 hp pro x2 612 touchscreen laptop. I don't want to lose the windows 7. I downloaded what I think is the most recent version Remix_OS_for_PC_Android_M_64bit_B2016101201. Also can I burn the iso to a disc (not usb drive) and use the included windows installer. Will remix boot from the disc so I can check it out on my pc before installing it?
Does remix allow installing conventional linux applications such as full libreoffice or is it limited to google play offerings. Is there a guide anywhere to side loading whatever is needed to get the google play store working. Appreciate any help with all these questions. Thanks so much
@spb37
Installing using the official installer will not do any harm to the Windows 7 installation. If you chose to install on the same partition as Windows, it will be placed in a separate folder and a boot menuentry will be added.
So, yes, you end up with a conventional dual boot arrangement
Remix OS .iso was not designed to work on disc mediums so I do not recommend to try and boot from a disc.
Instead, better use a USB storage Device to test Remix out.
Remix OS is a fork of Android-x86 project (coming from AOSP) so it doesn't have a Linux GUI packages installer. You won't be able to install LibreOffice on it.
Play Store comes pre-installed as long as you select the respective option during first boot.
It depend
i've create one partition and install with INSTALL=1
taking grub not grub 2 saying add one instruction for choose os remix or Windows 7 at the starting up (it had work perfectly with the pc of my friend but not with mine .

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